{"id":119373,"date":"2021-10-19T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T23:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119373"},"modified":"2021-10-19T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T23:39:29","slug":"sri-lanka-reverses-organic-farming-drive-as-tea-suffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/19\/sri-lanka-reverses-organic-farming-drive-as-tea-suffers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka reverses organic farming drive as tea suffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy France24<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo (AFP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/9cf7da42-30b7-11ec-a81e-005056a90284\/w:980\/p:16x9\/432ce171e463d6af65ebc6d50f782a5e71404ae1.webp\" alt=\"Tea crops have suffered in Sri Lanka due to a lack of organic fertiliser\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka on Tuesday backed down from ambitious plans to become the world&#8217;s first completely organic farming nation, reversing a ban on imports of chemical fertiliser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had imposed a total ban on agrochemicals in May, saying he wanted to make Sri Lankan farming 100 percent organic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plantations Minister Ramesh Pathirana said Tuesday that the change of course was to help growers of Ceylon tea, exports of which are worth $1.3 billion annually for the island nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy France24 Colombo (AFP) Sri Lanka on Tuesday backed down from ambitious plans to become the world&#8217;s first completely organic farming nation, reversing a ban on imports of chemical fertiliser. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had imposed a total ban on agrochemicals in May, saying he wanted to make Sri Lankan farming 100 percent organic. Plantations Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-chemical-fertilizer-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}